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APPLICATION FOR REHOUSING
It is the practice now to submit to the Public Health
Department applications for housing in order that we may advise
as to the number of points, 0-20, which might be awarded on
medical grounds.
In this respect it should be noted that cases are
pointed by the Housing Estates Manager in respect of period on
waiting list, overcrowding, bedroom deficiency, insanitary
conditions, lack of facilities, separated families, half-way
house accommodation, separate home and service in the Forces,
Points awarded by the Public Health Department are made on
medical grounds only.
440 applications were submitted by the Housing Estates
Manager to the Public Health Department and we visited every case
to ascertain the number of rooms occupied by the family, the sex
and ages of the members of the family, the conditions under which
they were living and any medical conditions which might be improved
by rehousing. In addition, 132 reports on rehousing applications
were submitted by us direct to the London County Council and 30 to
other Boroughs. A further 52 cases were investigated for the
Housing Estates Manager but were found to have obtained alternative
accommodation without recourse to the Borough Council.

Of the 47 cases where the maximum points, 20, were
given on medical grounds, 31 were on account of active tuberculosis
and the remaining 16 were for various disabilities
including disseminated sclerosis (3 cases) and angina pectoris